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. >> reporter: phrases like fiscal cliff and debt ceiling behindous the americans have sequestration to worry about. if congress takes no action, across the board spending cuts will be imposed on march 1st. democrats on thursday proposed toe delay the cuts. >> we can't cut research and develop and the american people understand that. >> we are talking about 2 1/2% of what we spend this year and this is just the first year of 10 years of cuts. so you have to be realistic about this. families all across the country have had their budgets cut by larger than that. >> reporter: the 85 billion dollars in cuts to federal agencies could lead to furloughs for as many as 2 million workers. the pentagon fears it could have a drastic effect on -- and republicans says it's coming. >> we are here because the president back in the last session of congress refused to cut spending in in anyplace and we wound up with it. >> reporter: there's uncertainty over the deadline senator schumer appears confident the sequester will be avoided. >> their arguments don't meet the favor of hardly anyone other than
. >> reporter: phrases like fiscal cliff and debt ceiling behindous the americans have sequestration to worry about. if congress takes no action, across the board spending cuts will be imposed on march 1st. democrats on thursday proposed toe delay the cuts. >> we can't cut research and develop and the american people understand that. >> we are talking about 2 1/2% of what we spend this year and this is just the first year of 10 years of cuts. so you have to be realistic about...
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ceiling fight two years ago. they will slowly kick in on march 1st and hit hur military especially hard. the army chief of staff reporting that our sold yirs could see longer time in stanford . top navy officials warning about the raidness of fleet of aircraft carriers and may not be able to deploy to carriers in the same time. steech is live in washington. >> there is troops in stanford, many of them serving multiple tours of duty and have to stay in the combat zone longer than the usual one year if drastic budget cuts go through. here is the army chief of stampt >> for example, we'll curtail training for 80 percent of ground forces. this will impact ourits war fighting skims and introduce short fall necessary critical specialities. including aviation and intelligence and engineering and our ability to ricruit soldiers in to our army. >> training would be a major casult i there is other consequences. less maintenance was expensive war fighting equipment and republicans blame the president for the whole crisis. >
ceiling fight two years ago. they will slowly kick in on march 1st and hit hur military especially hard. the army chief of staff reporting that our sold yirs could see longer time in stanford . top navy officials warning about the raidness of fleet of aircraft carriers and may not be able to deploy to carriers in the same time. steech is live in washington. >> there is troops in stanford, many of them serving multiple tours of duty and have to stay in the combat zone longer than the usual...
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ceiling that he has not been able to get his picks through, and i think the longer the hagel thing sits out there, andrea, the more danger it is -- dangerous it is for chuck hagel's chances. >> can i just point out -- >> i'm being told that the white house council has sent a letter. >> i have the letter here. >> very good. tag teaming. >> the letter from katherine rumler, to senators mccain, graham, and ayotte says she is trying to address concerns that have been raised by you and the armed services committee in connection with the nomination. she quotes extensively from the review board, remember the review board from pickering and admiral mueller, which said that there simply was not enough time for a military response. then she says this intensive response, which was directedly the president, included 13 meetings of interagency principles and deputies within a week of the attack. of course, this does not address their concerns about what was happening in the hours, the seven hours between the initial attack and when the second attack started and the three other americans were killed.
ceiling that he has not been able to get his picks through, and i think the longer the hagel thing sits out there, andrea, the more danger it is -- dangerous it is for chuck hagel's chances. >> can i just point out -- >> i'm being told that the white house council has sent a letter. >> i have the letter here. >> very good. tag teaming. >> the letter from katherine rumler, to senators mccain, graham, and ayotte says she is trying to address concerns that have been...
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>> well, you see the republican party every time the debt ceiling comes up trying to leverage that, making sure the president can't pass anything else, that we don't get past that debate unless they get their way i think the american people want us to get past that. the debt is very important but you can't have the same fight that's disruptive every six months. >> woodruff: congressman collins how do you see that? >> i think what we've got to do is look -- of course we represent everyone. in our districts and everyone in our state but more importantly everyone in our country. what we have to understand is we fight for the principles we ran on, we fight for the principles we believe in this country from an economic standpoint make us great. what we've got to understand here is many times these issues that divide us also can bring us together but it's not going to be one from bringing up the same old thing and to respond to the point of republicans, it's also been a theme of the democratic party as well to go back to taxing certain classes of people and that was another thing expressed the o
>> well, you see the republican party every time the debt ceiling comes up trying to leverage that, making sure the president can't pass anything else, that we don't get past that debate unless they get their way i think the american people want us to get past that. the debt is very important but you can't have the same fight that's disruptive every six months. >> woodruff: congressman collins how do you see that? >> i think what we've got to do is look -- of course we...
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that is why republicans caved on the debt ceiling. that is why they will cave on some of these other fiscal things going forward. it is up to the voters to make this happen. the politicians just react to the pressures. host: steve mcmahon, a co- founder of purple strategies, and also a media strategist for democratic campaigns. thank you so much for joining us. david winston, a brief thought? guest: if look at what newt gingrich did and bill clinton did, balancing the budget, getting unemployment under four%, bill clinton and newt gingrich laid out that pattern. i wish president obama would engage the house republicans the way bill clinton did. host: david winston, a republican strategist, you can hear his election analysis on cbs news. coming up next, we will look at the executive order the president signed last week with larry clinton of the internet security alliance. then our next guest will be an expert on nuclear weapons, who will talk about which nations have nuclear capabilities. all of that after this break. ♪ >> we have a
that is why republicans caved on the debt ceiling. that is why they will cave on some of these other fiscal things going forward. it is up to the voters to make this happen. the politicians just react to the pressures. host: steve mcmahon, a co- founder of purple strategies, and also a media strategist for democratic campaigns. thank you so much for joining us. david winston, a brief thought? guest: if look at what newt gingrich did and bill clinton did, balancing the budget, getting...
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although it is not like the debt ceiling where immediately you feel the pain the day after. it takes a while for the pain to be felt. there is about three weeks before the money runs out for the government to function. i think in that period of time, they will come up with some better arrangement than the axe across the cleaver. there will be significant spending reduction. this may be the first time people will feel it. >> emily, you are right there in d.c. from all of the folks you are talking with right now, do you hear anything? we have 11 days before it goes into effect. >> i feel like there is a lot of urgency behind contingency planning. i feel like there is much more of an inevitability. there is a sense more so than the fiscal cliff. the cuts come in more gradually and there there is more time. the deadline will pass. the feeling of inevitability. there is a lot of contingency planning going on. >> we will talk about this next weekend as it looms closely with the deadline. let's switch gears and talk with eleanor about the opposition to the nominee john hhagel. here
although it is not like the debt ceiling where immediately you feel the pain the day after. it takes a while for the pain to be felt. there is about three weeks before the money runs out for the government to function. i think in that period of time, they will come up with some better arrangement than the axe across the cleaver. there will be significant spending reduction. this may be the first time people will feel it. >> emily, you are right there in d.c. from all of the folks you are...
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they got about $600 billion in tax rate increases in that deal for the debt ceiling deal. now coming back they would like the tax loophole and deduction closed for this quote unquote balanced deal to come to a deal with the sequester. now what people aren't talking about is another deadline, which is the continuing resolution. that is the funding of the government. that happens at the end of march, march 27th. so, you know, we go from crisis to crisis here in washington lately. martha: so true. >> reporter: and you may have the sequester go in place on march 1st and you may have a couple of weeks where there is this pain, and a lot of stories about what is happening, and then it all gets wrapped up in some kind of giant deal ahead of the continuing resolution. martha: we see the first responders tk hav have gathered on stage. this is a backdrop we are used to seeing in the president's appearances. these are people he think will be hurt if the sequester kicks in. our thanks to bret baier. and here is president obama. >> good morning, everybody. please have a seat. welcome t
they got about $600 billion in tax rate increases in that deal for the debt ceiling deal. now coming back they would like the tax loophole and deduction closed for this quote unquote balanced deal to come to a deal with the sequester. now what people aren't talking about is another deadline, which is the continuing resolution. that is the funding of the government. that happens at the end of march, march 27th. so, you know, we go from crisis to crisis here in washington lately. martha: so true....
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congress and the president agreed to it all as a way to escape the debt ceiling crisis of 2011. >> serious cuts at air ports, seaports. >> reporter: at a hearing a slew of president obama's cabinet secretaries warned what's coming. >> the damage here would be irreparable. i wish i had a magic wand to wave, i simply don't have that. >> reporter: in addition to tsa cuts creating longer airport security lines, the department of homeland security may have to lose the equivalent of 5,000 agents at border and slice $1 billion from fema. education cuts, 70,000 children could be kicked out of head start problems for low-income families. the pentagon may have to furlough thousands of defense workers. >> we might as well just pack up and go home. because if we're just going to have across the board cuts what is the point of our being here? >> reporter: while democrats and moderate republicans want to slam on the sequester brakes, some conservative lawmakers are cheering on the cuts. >> not only should the sequester stand, many pundits say the sec questions administer's far short. that we need $4 tri
congress and the president agreed to it all as a way to escape the debt ceiling crisis of 2011. >> serious cuts at air ports, seaports. >> reporter: at a hearing a slew of president obama's cabinet secretaries warned what's coming. >> the damage here would be irreparable. i wish i had a magic wand to wave, i simply don't have that. >> reporter: in addition to tsa cuts creating longer airport security lines, the department of homeland security may have to lose the...
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the package of cuts came from the 2011 debt ceiling deal, and it was never meant to go into effect. during the presidential campaign, mr. obama said as much. >> it will not happen. >> reporter: but congress has not been table to reach a compromise that would replace these cuts with smarter deficit reduction. so the sword is about to fall. among the immediate effects, funding cuts for 70,000 kids on head start, possible five-hour waits to get through security at the airport, deployment of one aircraft carrier has been postponed, and the navy has suspended overhaul of another. that's not to mention temporary layoffs, including first responders, like the ones behind the president. >> now, if congress allowed this meat cleaver approach to take place, it will jeopardize our military readiness, it will eviscerate job-creatie ining investment. >> reporter: in a statement, senator mitch mcconnell slammed the president, saying today's event at the white house proves, once again, that more than three months after the november election, president obama still prefers campaign events to common s
the package of cuts came from the 2011 debt ceiling deal, and it was never meant to go into effect. during the presidential campaign, mr. obama said as much. >> it will not happen. >> reporter: but congress has not been table to reach a compromise that would replace these cuts with smarter deficit reduction. so the sword is about to fall. among the immediate effects, funding cuts for 70,000 kids on head start, possible five-hour waits to get through security at the airport,...